The "Game of School" is something that I think all students and teachers recognize as a reality but avoid talking about it much like the article talks about. It is hard to see the behind the scenes of a school system where there are unmotivated teachers, low budgets, crippling standards to meet enacted by administrations, and students who are unwilling to learn.
I think that students are largely responsible for the quality of education that they receive. Sure every once in a while you will get a teacher who really is to blame because you can tell they could really care less, but other than that it is up to the student. If you do not have the best textbooks or resources, make the best with what you have. If you are given work to do, actually do it and come to class prepared. If you feel like all you are doing is busy work, go out of the realm of what is asked of you and learn on your own. These efforts are up to the student. If you sit back and school and do the minimum, guess what, your education value is going to be low. But, if you go out of your to learn as much as you can while you are in school, you are going to get a quality education no matter what the outside factors are.
The "game of schools" did not change my view of schools that much as far as the way that I saw students. Like the article says, students know how to play as much as the teachers do. But I was intrigued when brought face to face with the obstacles teachers face.
A lot of times when you are student, you see a teacher as exactly that and not much else. Reading all of those issues made me take a step back and think about how difficult a job teaching really is. Not only do they have to deal unmotivated students, but they have to work with negative colleagues and bad administration. It is easy to understand, in a sympathetic way, why teachers sometimes just take the shortcut.
I think the game of schools will work to improve schools because it is one general problem that will solve many smaller problems, almost in a domino effect. For example, if you solve students willingness to learn, teachers may feel more inspired to learn. Another would be, if you let teachers teach off the curriculum and made it more lenient for them, they could inspire students to learn more.
The "Game of Schools" outlines many problems that teachers and students face every day in schools. But it also shed light on the fact that neither student or teachers can face this problem by themselves, they must work together.
I think that students are largely responsible for the quality of education that they receive. Sure every once in a while you will get a teacher who really is to blame because you can tell they could really care less, but other than that it is up to the student. If you do not have the best textbooks or resources, make the best with what you have. If you are given work to do, actually do it and come to class prepared. If you feel like all you are doing is busy work, go out of the realm of what is asked of you and learn on your own. These efforts are up to the student. If you sit back and school and do the minimum, guess what, your education value is going to be low. But, if you go out of your to learn as much as you can while you are in school, you are going to get a quality education no matter what the outside factors are.
The "game of schools" did not change my view of schools that much as far as the way that I saw students. Like the article says, students know how to play as much as the teachers do. But I was intrigued when brought face to face with the obstacles teachers face.
A lot of times when you are student, you see a teacher as exactly that and not much else. Reading all of those issues made me take a step back and think about how difficult a job teaching really is. Not only do they have to deal unmotivated students, but they have to work with negative colleagues and bad administration. It is easy to understand, in a sympathetic way, why teachers sometimes just take the shortcut.
I think the game of schools will work to improve schools because it is one general problem that will solve many smaller problems, almost in a domino effect. For example, if you solve students willingness to learn, teachers may feel more inspired to learn. Another would be, if you let teachers teach off the curriculum and made it more lenient for them, they could inspire students to learn more.
The "Game of Schools" outlines many problems that teachers and students face every day in schools. But it also shed light on the fact that neither student or teachers can face this problem by themselves, they must work together.